San Diego Restaurant News, Chefsgiving & Claudette Zepeda Makes Moves

from San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour · host San Diego Magazine

#404 This week on Happy Half Hour, co-hosts Troy Johnson and Jackie Bryant go solo for a special Halloween episode. They talk restaurant news like Chefsgiving at Provisional Kitchen on November 13 benefiting the San Diego Food Bank; Valle's four-year anniversary dinner; and celebrity chef Claudette Zepeda's departure from Leu Leu to focus on filming projects, Chispa Hospitality, and her upcoming book. They also preview Orexi, a new Mediterranean-California spot opening in Little Italy, and Puesto's move to become the first Mexican restaurant group in the US to go completely seed-oil free. Other topics include Juniper & Ivy's Cayuse Vineyards dinner, the Ukrainian-owned Need to Eat Café in Poway, and Cambodian-Filipino pop-up Ming Oun's Kitchen. Discover more at San Diego Magazine

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